Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement to buy Eastern Airlines for about $600 million. For Eastern Chairman Frank Borman, the deal was an unfortunate, but unavoidable act of a company close to bankruptcy; for many of the employees it was a shameful sellout; and for the rest of the industry it was a shocker. If the merger goes through, it will create the largest U.S. airline, flying some 55 million passengers annually and serving 212 domestic and 71 overseas destinations. United would drop to second...
Instead, Monday night's culture shocker here between Duke and Harvard produced an expectable, 89-52, defeat of the Crimson by the nationally third-ranked Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium...
...problem, however, wasn't that I came from a school designed to produce besnectacled future Engineers of America. It was that, since my early acceptance to Harvard in December, I had prepared myself exclusively to deal with the future yuppies of America. And boy, was I in for a shocker...
...shocker came after Clarkson fell to RPI, 7-4, the night before Keep in mind, that the only team Vermont had beaten before was winless Army...
Right on the Bulldog's tail is 1-0 Columbia, which last weekend pulled the biggest shocker of them...